Baking fresh challah is one of the most sacred of Jewish traditions.
It is also an exercise in patience, of which I happen to have very little.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last Thursday night marked the launch of OMEK: a new center for in-depth transformational learning for women. Over 75 women of all ages and backgrounds – from Crown Heights, Long Island, New Jersey, Park Slope and even Maryland – came together at F.R.E.E. to be inspired. In addition to its primary mission to provide in-depth transformation learning for women, OMEK is also focused on naturally enhancing the physical wellbeing. The, the wholesome and elegant organic buffet served as a foretaste of upcoming programs on the holistic approach for to our bodies, as partner to our souls. Following the buffet, enlivening talks from multi-dimensional Olivia Schwartz and internationally acclaimed Shimona Tzukernik aroused the soul and awakened the mind.
MOSCOW, Russia — Caricaturist Boris Efimov celebrated his 107th birthday this week at the Beit Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch Marinah Roshtza synagogue in Moscow. Efimov, who etched political caricatures until the early 1980s, received Soviet State Prizes twice and was People’s Painter of the USSR in 1967.
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